The Utaku Plains

Legend of the Five Rings card from Celestial Edition, Samurai Edition, Promotional–Samurai, Celestial Edition 15th Anniversary, Promotional–Celestial

Card Type

Stronghold

Province Strength

7

Gold Production

5

Starting Family Honor

4

Clan

Unicorn

Card Text

Your Personalities have +1PH (while in play).
Battle: Choose your performing Personality. Give a target enemy Follower or Personality a Force penalty equal to your Personality's Personal Honor.

Legality

Destroyer War (Celestial), Race for the Throne (Samurai)

Deck

Pre-Game

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Reads, "The Utaku Plains 7PS 5G 4FH Your Personalities have +1PH while in play. Battle: Target your Personality: Reduce the Force of a target enemy Personality or Follower by your Personality's Personal Honor." [MRP, Celestial Edition, 29 June 2009] Comprehensive Rules, Celestial Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, February 2012, p. 158
• In Celestial Edition, Honorable Personalities have a maximum Personal Honor of 5. The ability on The Utaku Plains now reads, "Battle: Choose your performing Personality: Reduce the Force of a target enemy Personality or Follower by your Personality’s Personal Honor." [CE 15 MRP, 22 March 2010] Comprehensive Rules, Celestial Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, February 2012, p. 158
• Erratum: Reads, "The Utaku Plains 7PS 5G 4FH Your Personalities have +1 PH and a maximum Personal Honor of 5 while in play. Battle: Target one of your Personalities: Reduce the Force of a target Personality or Follower opposing him by your Personality’s Personal Honor." [MRP, Samurai Edition, 25 July 2007] Comprehensive Rules, Samurai Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, May 2009, p. 164

Rules Q&A

• Q: With regards to this topic: viewtopic.php?f=59&t=75287
  I'm assuming he meant The Utaku Plains: http://l5rsearch.com/db/search.cgi?title=utaku%20plains
  In which case, I'm assuming he wouldn't gain the additional 1 honor as the rules wiki states:
  He may reduce the Gold cost to play the Personality by 2. If he does not choose to do so, he may choose to gain Honor equal to the Personality's Personal Honor just before he enters play (also know as "buying for Honor"). A player may only gain Honor this way once per turn.
  To gain additional honor off of a personality entering play, I'd assume the card would have to explicitly state that personality/personalities in AND out of play have +1PH (eg. Ikoma Asa).
  I'm sure Zen will confirm it.
  A: Correct. Things that change Personal Honor while in play can't affect gains when buying for Honor. Zen Faulkes, "Cards that affect personal honor and coming into play", 17 Apr 2009
• Q: [Modern]: Do i gain the +1 Honor when Proclaiming while having the SH "The Utaku Plains" from CE in play ? According to the 20f Rules you Proclaim after and not while the Personality enters play, so i would assume yes.
  A: Yes, the Plains would affect the PH of the Personality before/when you gain the Honor for Proclaiming them. Very technically, though, you don't Proclaim after they enter play. You choose to Proclaim when Annoucing that you're Recruiting, but the gain is delayed until after they enter play. Brook Cunningham, "Sun and Moon #rules-questions", 7 Aug 2025